What’s the best way to file your vinyl? This article from 1997 tries to find out… [June 1997]
I’ve often found it amusing to see DJs posting pictures of themselves on Instagram surrounded…
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Norman Cook lays it all bare… [October 1995]
Just months before the launch of his first record as Fatboy Slim, Better Living Through…
‘Dope’ on plastic – ‘The Bomb’, 23 years later… [March 1995]
For the record, the lyric is ‘Street sounds swirling through my mind’ and not ‘These…
Daft Punk’s Discovery, 17 years later… [February 2001]
Daft Punk released their second album, Discovery, on 26 February 2001, and while 17 years…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Armand Van Helden – Witch Doktor [1994]
Armand Van Helden turns 48 tomorrow, and so for this week’s Throwback Thursday, we recall…
Satoshi Tomiie – the musical prodigy behind the Def Mix sound… [November 1994]
It’s been 29 years since producer Satoshi Tomiie recorded one of THE standout house anthems,…
That time Carl Cox teamed up with James Brown… [November 1998]
Carl Cox has worked with many great artists over the years, however in late 1998,…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Daft Punk – ‘Drive’ [1994]
This week marks 21 years since the launch of Homework, the album that catapulted two…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Artemnesia – Bits and Pieces [January 1995]
Released on Hooj Choons (one of the all time great labels) in early 1995, Artemnesia’s…
Happy birthday to the ‘Godfather of House Music’…
Today, 18 January, would have been Frankie Knuckles’ 63rd birthday. Arguably the most important name…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Camisra – Let Me Show You (Tall Paul remix)
For the first Throwback Thursday tune of 2018, we go back 20 years, to February…
A look at Cream Liverpool’s website… from 1997
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, as the saying goes, but Archive.org still throws…
THE FACE goes clubbing in Chicago, c.1986…
While I may have been too young to fully appreciate it at the time, THE…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Danny Tenaglia, Global Underground 017: London, CD2 [September 2000]
Music is like a time machine. Some chord progression or random melody can transport you…
Tony Humphries – champion of the ‘little guy’… [July 1992]
Tony Humphries has been one of the most committed house music pioneers for more than…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: I-F rolls back the years with this Chicago house mixtape… [1989]
Dutch producer I-F, also known as Interr-Ference (and Ferenc van der Sluijs to his mother)…
Set these dancing pixels to your favourite tune, sit back and enjoy…
Sometimes you come across a website that just makes listening to music a whole lot…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Sasha & Digweed, Ministry of Sound’s Sixth Birthday [September 1997]
It’s hard to believe that the Northern Exposure mix series – arguably the mixes that…
Deee-Lite: A Momentary Lapse of Psychedelia… [August 1990]
There are breakthrough singles, and then there’s Groove Is In The Heart… Deee-Lite were one…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Check out this slamming rave mixtape from indie rockers Butterfly Explosion…
“Open your mind…” Irish group Butterfly Explosion are perhaps better known for their shoegaze-influenced blend…
So why DID rocker Paul Weller decide to cover one of the all-time seminal house tracks..? [February 1989]
Given that Paul Weller commenced his career in ‘spit n sawdust’ outfit The Jam, before…
THROWBACK THURSDAY – Brainbug, Nightmare [November 1996]
I was disappointed to read recently about the death of Alberto Bertapelle, an Italian composer…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Der Dritte Raum – Hale Bopp [August 1998]
It’s rare enough that you can say that a particular track could have been released…
Los Angeles’ ‘Ditch Parties’: all baseball caps and computer cleaner… [1993]
“This teenage partygoer is sucking computer cleaner. It gives him a high, and he stumbles…
David Morales’ house music essentials [July 1993]…
While David Morales cut his teeth in the 1980s, both as an accomplished remixer and…
Sasha details how to ‘read’ a crowd…
In this interview with Skiddle, from 2015, Sasha turns back the clock to recall warehouse…
Something For The Weekend: Acid pioneer Armando on Chicago radio [1987/88]…
The late Armando Gallop was one of the first Chicago-based musicians to see the potential…
Before The Hacienda, there was Tony Wilson [1984]…
Today marks ten years since the passing of Tony Wilson (10 August 2007), the impresario…
Larry Heard and the birth of ‘Jack’…
The great Larry Heard, aka Fingers Inc, aka Fingers Corporation, aka Gherkin Jerks and countless…
‘Now this is how it started…’
From the outset, I want 909originals to be about the music